Pickleball Park at Leif Erickson Park in Bay Ridge
I had no idea there was a Pickleball Park at Leif Erickson on 66th Street and 8th Avenue (across the street from the old Dustbowl and diagonally across the street from Park Asia).
Seven hundred people play at this park. There’s even a Leif Ericson Pickleball Club. (See their website here). They even had a Halloween Pickleball event. (See here)
People of all ages in NYC are obsessed with pickleball.
At the Community Board 10 meeting on Monday, May 15th, Joseph W. requested for the Pickleball Park at Leif Ericson to be renamed Peter Lovett Pickleball Park. Lovett died in 2021. (Info)
Joseph W explained that during Covid, Peter Lovett was the manager at Ft. Hamilton Recreation Center and he wanted seniors to stay active. Peter went to the park every morning and set up the temporary nets, so everyone could play.
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Hugs,
marlene
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